| Examine how the concept of race was naturalized and documented in the early modern Spanish world using sources from Iberia, Mexico, South America, and the Philippines from the fifteenth through eighteenth centruies. Explore topics of religious difference, colonization, slavery and resistance, legal status, and racialized thinking about bodies, sex, gender, and society. Analyze contemporary ideas about blood purity, Blackness, indigeneity, mestizaje, and connections between claims of whiteness and structures of power. Consider ongoing scholarly debates on histories of race, such as how race operates as a category in diverse colonial settings. |
